Archive for January, 2012
Painting Barn Quilts: Geniuses at Work
Thanks for visiting our barn quilt blog posts. Click on anyone’s name to read that person’s post about our latest project. (If you don’t know whose to read, just pick your favorite number between 1-33 and go to that blog post.) Enjoy! And we always appreciate your comments. Thanks! Andrew Becca Tyler Justin Chandler Christina [...]
Time for Tebow
My students read the ESPN article by Rick Reilly: “I believe in Tim Tebow,” in class yesterday while I was at a meeting. Many of them wrote letters to Tim Tebow as a result. Jade Lauren Paige Cooper Dustin Jared Anna Lucas Brian Jared Some made comics. Deven Thomas Jason One wrote two songs. Cesar [...]
A Week of Blogging
Eighth graders wrote a blog post a day last week and then made an index to share them. Below you will find links to their indices. Krayton Andrew Vanessa Becca Tyler Chandler Shiann Justin Jaci Paul Christina Grace Meghan Paris Jason
Mark Brown’s “Take a Stand”
Today my students got to go to see a remarkable man sharing about how to Take a Stand against bullying. He was delightful and had his audience of 700+ middle schoolers laughing, crying, and listening to each of his words. A few of them wrote about the talk on their brand new blogs: Anna Jared [...]
Monday Mashups
Students have been busy posting this past week in our Week of Blogging Challenge. Today’s challenge was Monday Mashups. Most of us had fun with BeFunky.com, a great mashup Web 2.0 app. Here are some of the students’ creations for Monday Mashup. Notice they used only Creative Commons licensed images that allowed for derivatives or [...]
Fortune Cookie Quote
Tyler wrote this sweet saying on the whiteboard this morning. He had seen it in a fortune cookie, and has been sharing it with the world ever since. It’s Monday Mashup, so here’s what I did with the image… I used BeFunky.com. First I cropped the image to just show the quote. Then I edited [...]
Many Ways to Share A Book
No more reading response logs for us. Instead, we are going to share a book a month. You can share in any way you like, but here is a list of genius ideas to get you started. Produce a book trailer. Write a book review and post it on your blog. Create a Glog. Record [...]
Off the Cuff Thursday Posts
Students wrote about anything they wanted to today. Here are their posts. Anna – My Summer Vacation Jade – Realistic and Unrealistic Goals for Summer Deven – Five Best Apps Anna – Hi Jaci – Mixed-Matched Socks Grace – Basketball Shiann – Iowa Meghan – Basketball Game Vanessa – Inspiration Justin – RC Cars Becca [...]
Blogging Ideas
A week of blogging… Monday Mashup Using a photo from a friend or a photo with the right CC license, make a mashup using a cool editing program. Then publish it on your blog. Don’t forget to share with the original owner what you did and properly attribute the photo to the original owner too. [...]
